Avainsana: nature loss
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An activist is not a criminal – Arctic peatlands are at danger and telling that to the public is the right thing to do
Wednesday 25.9. a Swedish environmental activist group Återställ Våtmarker, together with Elokapina/Extinction Rebellion Finland, smeared the columns of the Parliament building with red water-soluble plant-based paint in Helsinki to highlight the destruction of the environment by Arctic peatlands. So the columns were smeared with paint, which could be washed off almost immediately. In a democracy…
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The Montreal Biodiversity Convention paints concrete goals – one third of the Earth’s surface to be protected
At the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, they managed to agree on global goals for the protection of biodiversity. Montreal was a continuation of the meeting in Kunming, China, which I wrote about earlier. The agreement and its goals are a similar and equally significant institution as the Paris climate agreement, and its numerically…